No matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used every day in our lives. From songs and television shows to conversations and advertisements, we often ...

"Narcissus" by Caravaggio (c. 1598). Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain What is an allegory? An allegory (Greek, "a speaking about something else") is a complete and cohesive narrative, for ...

As a writer, I have no flair for similes and metaphors: Nothing ever reminds me of anything else. Homer might compare a warrior on the battlefield to a roaring lion; Robert Burns might say his love is ...

Over the course of a long and prolific career, Prince wrote songs on a wide variety of topics. Anyone who knows anything about Prince, though, knows that he was particularly concerned with what was ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article demonstrates how the cosmological metaphors in ritual song texts are an important but unrecognized resource in the repertoire of ...